在 Jupyter Notebook 中运行 Python 代码时出现问题：GoodReadsScraper

Question

I would like to start by letting you know that I am a layperson. I only started working with Python a few weeks ago, so I am new to this and am not yet familiar with quite a lot of the necessary terminology. I would be very grateful for your help!

I want to try out Omar Einea's Goodreads Reviews Scraper ( https://github.com/OmarEinea/GoodReadsScraper ). I followed his instructions and installed beautifulsoup4, langdetect, selenium and lxml using pip. I copy-pasted part of his code from reviews.py to a Jupyter Notebook to test it out and ran the following cell:

from Tools import SafeThread
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from langdetect import detect
from Browser import Browser
from Writer import Writer

However, I got the following error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-4dc46ca353f6> in <module>
----> 1 from Tools import SafeThread
      2 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
      3 from langdetect import detect
      4 from Browser import Browser
      5 from Writer import Writer

ImportError: cannot import name 'SafeThread' from 'Tools' (unknown location)

I thought that perhaps I had to install tools first, so I ran Python Code:

pip install tools

in the command line, but I received the message that it had already been installed:

C:\Users\Lore>pip install Tools
Requirement already satisfied: Tools in c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (0.1.9)
Requirement already satisfied: pytils in c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from Tools) (0.3)
Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from Tools) (1.13.0)
Requirement already satisfied: lxml in c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (from Tools) (4.4.2)

Do you have any ideas on how I might be able to solve this problem?

I also have another question. So far I have only worked in/with jupyter notebooks. Is there a better way/place to write and run my Python scripts/commands?

I tried running the entire code from "Reviews.py", by opening it in IDLE and clicking on "run", but that just gave me this:

Python 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:21:23) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> 
======= RESTART: C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\GoodReadsScraper-master\Reviews.py ======
>>> 

Thank you in advance for your kind help and understanding!

Answer 1

'Tools' being referenced in Review.py is this script called 'Tools' in the repository you reference .

What you installed with pip install tools is something not related to that. You can see it here .

You'd have an easier time if you download all the code in the repository and then try running things while your working directory is set to that directory. In a notebook you can use pwd to print your working directory. You can use %cd to change it.